On September 10, marcus@cendio.se wrote:> neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown) writes:> > > SUNs "cachefs" concept can be used to improve read performance by> > caching a lot more of server-data on the client. That could be> > implemented for Linux, but I don't know of anyone with serious plans.> > cachefs sucks. It doesn't seem to cache stat(2) information.> Doing ls -F in a ~100-entries directory takes several seconds over> a link with 50ms round-trip time.

Well, I said "concept" not "implementation", but I suspect thatSolaris cachefs does cache stat information. Maybe you just need toincrease the timeouts for the attribute cache.